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Australia’s Mandatory Internet Filtering plan scrapped in favour of INTERPOL block list 9 Nov 2012 | 12:10 am
The Australian Government will no longer introduce Mandatory Filtering legislation in Australia. Labor’s planned filtering legislation would have seen a broad range of legal content (originally define...
Movies you won’t see at the 2012 Mardi Gras Film Festival 21 Feb 2012 | 09:45 pm
Screen cap from In Their Room: Berlin You won’t see Community Action Centre or In Their Room: Berlin at the 2012 Mardi Gras Film Festival. The Australian Classification Board has refused to give fest...
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Frightfest round-up: day 5 blacklagoon.info 31 Aug 2010 | 07:44 pm
The final day of Frightfest opened with Jake West’s hour long documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape. A passionate but fairly even handed look at the censorship of horror movie...
Oh Dear thelawwestofealingbroadway.blogspot.com 17 Mar 2012 | 10:22 am
The Government is hinting at a new wheeze to get a grip on the unruly behaviour of the British public. This is reminiscent of the most manic and absurd days of Tony Blair. Moral panics are a regular ...
Are you the 1%? yoopeho.com 6 Jan 2012 | 02:13 am
There was a lot of moral panic when surveys a few years ago came to the conclusion that a significant percentage (the numbers were somewhere between 20% and 50%) of teens do what was coined as sextin...
BEFORE THEY BLAMED VIDEO GAMES, THEY BLAMED PINBALL mugshotsusa.com 25 Jan 2013 | 06:00 pm
I’m often surprised how our moral panics of years past sound quaint or even downright crazy years later. The Atlantic Cities had an interesting story on the 1940’s crusade against pinball machines tha...
Britain's Religious Tribunals: 'Joint Governance' in Practice ojls.oxfordjournals.org 28 May 2013 | 11:27 am
In recent years, there have been a number of moral panics in Western societies about the existence of religious courts and tribunals in general and Shariah law in particular. In England and Wales, the...
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World ajeuk.org 18 Jun 2013 | 01:45 pm
Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The r...
Video Nasties documentary included in upcoming “House on Straw Hill” release cinesploitation.com 24 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
PRESS RELEASE: The 80s video boom has become a time of sweet nostalgia for movie fans of a certain age but in the UK it was also a time of moral panic perpetuated by ill-informed politicians and a sen...
Morality and hotness mikethemasterdater.com 9 Sep 2011 | 01:47 am
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Coda 2 has landed stevenf.com 25 May 2012 | 07:49 am
You probably already know, but Coda 2 (and its iPad companion, Diet Coda) are now available both directly from panic.com and App Stores worldwide. Both of these apps are available for 50% off ($50 an...
Gatekeeper stevenf.com 17 Feb 2012 | 12:38 pm
I wrote a big post on 10.8’s Gatekeeper feature for the Panic blog. Includes my attempt to explain code-signing to the non-technical.